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NYT Crossword — January 29, 2025

Wednesday’s 15 × 16 puzzle, 79 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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42 clues

1Home of Spaceship Earth

14Author Novik of the "Scholomance" trilogy

17Direction toward the very top of the world

19Testify (for)

20"Game of Thrones" actress Diana

21Appropriate for all gamers

23West Coast team, on scoreboards

24Characteristic of a fork in the road

27Minnesotan trio?

28Armenia, e.g., until 1991: Abbr.

29Snack whose name translates as "breaded"

31"Star Wars" heroine

33Shape of the Stade de France

36Break a sweat

38Gemma's role in "Crazy Rich Asians"

42Like fake nails, typically

43One of a wide pair for snow sports

45Setting for Cape Cod at Christmas, in brief

46Tegan's pop music bandmate

47"___ Him Back!" (Olivia Rodrigo hit)

51Farm share inits.

53Class for a pre-med student

54Ending with new or teen

55Chore-doing robot brand

58___ up (get hyped)

59Professor's goal

61Goes a-courting?

64Merchandise with logos for "Baienglaca" or "Guddi," e.g.

66Justice Kagan

67Environmentally friendly prefix

68"Priscilla" director Coppola

69"Ladies and ___ …"

70Org. for care in the U.K.

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37 clues

22024 Olympics host

3*Remedy for a cold

4Some sorority members, informally

5"Cat on a Hot ___ Roof"

6___ vez (again, in Spanish)

7Event that might feature unlimited mimosas … or a literal description of the answers to the starred clues

8What might be necessary after a crash

9*Help avoid disaster

10Prefix with -meter

11Received a card, say

12Major or minor part of a tarot deck

13*Go over again

22Bad thing on a live broadcast

25*Raise one's glass

29Kernel locale

30Vocal range for Amy Winehouse

31World of Warcraft or Rune, in brief

32Flotsam or Jetsam, in "The Little Mermaid"

37Person using a crystal ball

39*Little scamp

41Toxic insecticide

44"Eloise" author Thompson

48Light as a feather, e.g.

50Popular logic puzzle

52"You're already leaving?"

55Video camera button

57Analyze, as 18-Down

60Large Aussie animals

63Explosive material

65N.C.A.A. Wildcats, in brief

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025

15×16

Grid size

79

Total entries

38/202

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

16 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 29, 2025

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorSophia Maymudes

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split42 across · 37 down

Longest entries

7DEvent that might feature unlimited mimosas … or a literal description of the answers to the starred clues16 ltrs 9D*Help avoid disaster12 ltrs 25D*Raise one's glass12 ltrs 17ADirection toward the very top of the world9 ltrs 64AMerchandise with logos for "Baienglaca" or "Guddi," e.g.9 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.